Food wastage not only causes food prices to increase, making it even harder for the needy on the ground to afford a meal, it also amounts to a massive squandering of resources including water, land, energy, labour, and capital, as well as needlessly produces greenhouse gas emissions, contributing to global warming and climate change.

Did you know that 10 percent of rich countries' greenhouse gas emissions come from growing food that is never eaten?

A quarter of all freshwater and 300 million barrels of oil are used to produce food that is wasted – that’s US$250 billion lost globally every year

Produced but uneaten food vainly occupies almost 1.4 billion hectares of land, representing close to 30 percent of the world’s agricultural land.